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Why after executing the command openssl sha1 < /dev/null | wc --bytes the output is 50? The output size of SHA-1 should have 160 bits what gives us 20 bytes.
Why is the output of
openssl sha1 < /dev/null | wc --bytes50?Because the 20 byte digest is prefixed by
(stdin)=and is expressed in hex.